From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life

by Linda C. Farthing and Benjamin Kohl

Book Overview

From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of F lix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces F lix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, F lix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292743920
• ISBN13: 9780292743922
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"